Improvement in harvesters



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES PINE, OF TROY, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELFYAND WALTER A. WOOD, OF

HOOSIOK FALLS, NEW YORK.

-INI`PROVEMENT' IN HARVESTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 110,445, dated October 27, 1863.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES PINE,'of Troy, in county of Rensselaer and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements vin Harvesting-Machines, (and which has been known and distinguished from other machines made by me as the Grasshopper Mowing-Machine 5) and Ido hereby declarethe following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation ot' the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, makinga part of this specification, 'in which- Figure 1 represents the machine in perspective as arranged for mowing, with the exception of the drivers seat. Fig. 2 represents a combined gear and clutch wheel with a portion ofthe clutching apparatus. Fig. 3 represents a vertical transverse section through the vertical plate or frame that supports the gearing. Fig. 4 represents a platform or table and its several adjuncts as used in reaping grain, Src. Fig. 5 represents the end of the bar to which the platform is connected, and which is concealed by the seat in Fig. 4.

Similar letters of reference, where they occur in the separate figures, denote like parts in all the drawings.

A leading characteristic in my invention consists in dispensing with the use of shafts for the support ot' the driving-gear, by which much expense is saved in the first construction of the machine and great simplicity and lightness attained and the use ot' journalboxes dispensed with, and myinvention further consists in the use of a vertical frame forsupporting the gearing and other-parts ofthe machine. These leading elements of the machine, though characterizing it in its general construction, involve much detail which is believed to be new, and which will he hereinafter set forth and described in connection with the drawings.

A represents a vertical frame or plate, to which is secured a journal, B, Fig. 3, on which the rnain driving and supporting wheel B is hung and turns, said wheel heilig furnished with a cogged gear or rim, C, for giving motion to the cutters. rJhe vertical frame A has brackets A A cast on it or otherwise secured to it, which form a support for the jonrclutch and spur-gear beingk united or inadein one piece.

. On the back of the bevel-gear D there is a half-clutch ,61, forming with the other halt', c, a

vfull clutch when the two are .drawn together by the clutch-lever e, and the half-clutch l has vupon its rim a ratch,f, in and against which a spring-pawl, g, works for the usual purposes in such connection. The journals above mentioned, on which the wheels turn, are stationary, being rigidly connected to thevertical frame A.

To the vertical plate or frameA is connected,

by screw-boltslt or otherwise, the extensionbar G, and a series of adj usting-holes, t', may be furnished in the frame by which said extension-bar may be raised up or let down, as the nature of the crop to be cut may require. To this extension-bar, as atj, the inside shoe or divider, H, is connected, and to said shoe the linger-bar I is attached.

To the vertical frame A is also attached, bya hinge-joint, as at k, Fig. 3, a bar, J, towhich the tonguel K is fastened, and the outer orgrainside end ot' this bar is connected to a bent bar, L, the forward upper end of which is furnished with-adjusting holes Z, by which means it may be secured to the tongue, and also admit of raising or lower of the points ofA the fingers and cutters, and the rear lower end of which has a Supporting or ground wheel, M, upon it to sustain the tongue and the driver whe mounted onthe machine.

To the bent bar L is pivoted at m a lever, N, having itslower end bent around into a hook or cam shape, so as to take under a projection or arm,(), on the extension-bar G, and thus raise up said extension-bar, as well as the ngervbar and cutting apparatus connected to the imger-bar.`

The lever N may be furnished with pins a a, against which ashoulder, o, in a brace,p, may take, so as to hold up the cut-ting apparatus when desired to do so. to one end of arroching bar, q, the opposite end of which has a foot-piece, r, on it, so that the driver from his seat, pressing with his rlhe brace p is fastened foot upon the'piece 1', may raise up the brace p, release the lever N, and allow the cutting apparatus to drop upon the ground. The journal of the ground-wheel M, like the other journals carrying wheels, is stationary, being fastened to the lever N.

The clutch-lever e may be caught and held by a catch, s, to hold the clutch in or out, as may be desired.

lo the bevel-pinion E, or to a crank wheel or disk, t, connected to or with it, is connected, by a wrist-pin, u, one end of the pitman I), the other end thereof being connected, as atv, to the cutter-bar or cutters, to give them motion in the usual well-known way.

A dragbar, fw, by which the machine is drawn, is provided and fastened vto the extensionbar G atabout its center by a pivoted joint, so as to admit of the rising and falling ofthe machine without changing the line or finger-bar to this platform has upon it two seats--one, U, for the driver and the other, U', for the raker, who may brace himself in his seat by placing his foot against the brace V. The tongue K in this case is pivoted, and may be braced laterally by 4a brace, W, pivoted at y, so that it may move with the tongue, and to adjust and level the platform there is an arc, c, pivoted at its lower end to a brace, X, and secured by a pin, 2, to the tongue at its upper.end, passing through one of the adjusting-holes 3 therein. y r

I have called the bar G an extension-bar.77 It might with propriety be called a dragbar, as the power to draw the machine is applied directly to this bar. The bar J serves as an axle to the machine, and possesses the vpeculiar anomaly of an axle hinged at one of its ends to the main frame of the machine. When, however, the machine is arranged for reaping, the finger-bar I becomes the axle.

Among'the peculiarities of construction of the above described machine, I mention the" following: first, a vertical frame to support the gearing; second, constructing harvesters without rotating shafts, as also without journal bearings'or boxes; third, connecting the/drag or extension bar rigidly to a vertical frame; fourth, hinging an axle to a vertical frame; fifth, making the brace that is connected with the tongue the means of supporting the groundwheel 5 sixth, applying the draft to the extension or to the linger'bar, which is a prolongation of the exten sion-bar 5 seven th, changing the angle or pitch of t'he finger-bar or fingers by changing the position of the brace where it is connected to the tongue; eighth, using stationary pins or studs for supports for the gearing; ninth, placing the gearing all in front of the finger-bar and leaving the ngerbar within the plane of the driving-wheel and on or nearly on a line with the center of the driving-wheel, which leaves clear unobstructed space behind for raking the cutgrain into from the side of the platform; tenth, jointing thetongue to the finger-bar so that when said finger-bar is placed in a. higher or lower position the. platform can be leveled or adjusted by means ofthe arc between the tongue and arm extending in front of the finger-bar; eleventh, the making of pinion and disk, of side and face ratchets, ot' clutch and gear-wheel, in one piece, which obviates the necessity and expense ofso much tting up as would be required if made in separate pieces.

Having thus fully described the nature, purpose, and objects ofmy invention, what I claim therein'as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l.- A vertical frame, A,for carryingand sup-4 porting the gearing, substantially as described. 2. Hanging the gear-wheels upon stationary pins or studs attached to the vertical frame A, so that I may dispense withall rotating shafts audjournal boxes or bearings, substantially as described.

3. In combination with the vertical frame A, the hinged bar J and the rigid bar G, both serving the purposes herein described and represented. 4 Y 4. In combination with the vertical frame and the hinged andrigid bars connected therewith, the former carrying the tongue and ,the latter the drag-hook w, a lever ou one and an arm on the other, so that the cutting apparatus may be raised up, held up and supported, or letdownatpleasure,substantially as described.

JAMES PINE.

Witnesses J. ROMEYN. WM. A. J oHNsov. 

